20 Most Promising Chemical Tech Solution Providers - 2016

The last few decades have witnessed tremendous efforts toward development and design of new chemical process aligned to the escalating concerns of supply chain and logistics, data management, security and global regulation. At the same time, churning trends like big data, cloud computing ,and social media are exerting an influence on the industry. In the forefront, IT is playing a major role in chemical industry to address these challenges and build a significant bond between the upcoming chemical process and the technological vogue.

Chemical technology is focused to connect the dots between processes on the floor with analytics, identifying optimum production level and receiving developmental alerts. To reduce the security flaws and overcome the intellectual property concerns, companies are adopting integrated top-down cyber security architecture, locking down their environments and remaining aware of the pressures and threats. Further, even chemical companies have reasons to be linked with social media applications—to gather intelligence about a specific field, especially in higher-risk areas, and move up the value chain and get closer to customers, enhancing research and marketing.

IT is enabling all these. The goal of embracing IT services within chemical industry is gaining momentum with companies that are readily offering chemical technology solutions to improve operational effectiveness, reduce unscheduled downtime, drive higher returns on investment, and develop customer service technology roadmap.

In these last few months, we have reviewed hundreds of technology solution providers and shortlisted the ones that deliver best services to tackle challenges faced in the chemical industry. We present you CIOReview’s 20 Most Promising Chemical Technology Solution providers of 2016.